MUSIC TO WATCH BOND BY

Music To Watch Bond By

The stories and artwork behind the music of every James Bond film scored by John Barry alongside 300+ colour images.

Details

Publication Date: 20 July 2023
Language: English
    By Geoff Leonard and Pete Walker
    Cover design and artwork by: Ruud Rozemeijer

Specifications

Pages: 280
Binding: Paperback and Hardback
Interior Color: Color
Dimensions: Crown Quarto (7.44 x 9.68 in / 189 x 246 cm

Please note that for UK customers only we can supply a signed hardback copy of the book for £26.50 post-free.

Contact Geoff Leonard for payment details.

 Softback copies can be purchased from Lulu.com for £19.99 plus postage.  
In order to combat the high cost of international postage, copies of both versions of the book can be purchased from Lulu.com at a price approximately equivalent to the above, with postage calculated at a rate local to the country concerned.
Order here through the Lulu.com shop.
Copies may also be found on Amazon or eBay, but are likely to be more expensive.

MUSIC BY JOHN BARRY - BOOK

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The five-hundred page book, fully-illustrated (often with rarely seen images), consists of a chronological exploration of key landmarks underpinning John Barry's illustrious career.

Written in the form of extensively researched essays concentrating on one specific score, over forty  are represented, from the first, Beat Girl, to the last, Enigma. Whether highly acclaimed or lower key films, each chapter sets out, clearly and accurately, the circumstances surrounding the inception and completion of the score under scrutiny and in doing so, provides  fresh insights into John Barry's remarkable legacy.

Please note that for UK customers only we can supply a signed hardback copy of the book for £34.50 post-free.

Contact Geoff Leonard for payment details.

Softback copies can be purchased from Lulu.com for £29.99 plus postage.
In order to combat the high cost of international postage, copies of both versions of the book can be purchased from Lulu.com at a price approximately equivalent to the above, with postage calculated at a rate local to the country concerned.
Order here through the Lulu.com shop.
Copies may also be found on Amazon or eBay, but are likely to be more expensive.

THE STRINGBEAT YEARS

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Now available!

The Stringbeat Years: Songs accompanied by John Barry

Now available, a 4-CD box-set comprising of 144 tracks, a 24-page booklet (replete with period photographs and comprehensive notes) and including ten bonus tracks (among them the CD debut of the first ever cover version of a John Barry instrumental composition).

Featuring – for the first time – the film versions of ‘Mix me a Person’, ‘The Time has Come’, and ‘What a Whopper’ (slightly shortened). There’s also an unique opportunity to hear the original version of ‘Ah, Poor Little Baby’, making its premiere appearance on CD.

The box-set is limited to 500 copies and is only £16.99 post-free in the UK, so don’t miss out! It is available direct from this website!

£16.99  post-free in the UK
£19.99  anywhere else in the world

Order now!
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Those customers who wish to pay by bank transfer, please contact us the  appropriate details.

Let us know if you aren't able to do this and we'll work out another way. 

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Hit and Miss: The Story of The John Barry Seven

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Our book "Hit and Miss: The Story of The John Barry Seven" is now available!

£19.99

post-free for UK customers.

You can order now!

https://paypal.me/Geoffers007

Those customers who wish to pay by bank transfer, please contact us the  appropriate details.

Let us know if you aren't able to do this and we'll work out another way.

Alternatively, UK residents can order from us via ebay, where credit cards are accepted. The book's cover price is £30, so anybody ordering direct from us will receive a 33% discount, reducing the cost to £19.99.
 
For postage and packing for those outside the UK, please add:
Europe - £11.00
Rest of the World – £27.00
(or £12 economy, though note this can take several weeks).
We'll also need your mailing address, of course!

Further discount if you want two or more copies - ask for details.

Alternatively, Contact us and we will be in touch!

Visit our dedicated web page here!

JOHN BARRY - THE MAN WITH THE MIDAS TOUCH

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John Barry - The Man With the Midas Touch is still available at a discounted price. You won't find it anywhere else apart from at vastly inflated prices on eBay or Amazon.

Buy now direct from co-author Gareth Bramley while copies last

JOHN BARRY - THE EARLY YEARS - CD

John Barry - The Early Years CD

Our CD "John Barry - The Early Years" is a compilation album focusing on the years 1959-1962, with every track a Barry arrangement or composition. The majority of tracks are making their début on CD.

Buy now through our own website (Paypal or contact us)

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Geoff Leonard was born in Bristol. He spent much of his working career in banking but became an independent record producer in the early nineties, specialising in the works of John Barry and British TV theme compilations.

He also wrote liner notes for many soundtrack albums, including those by John Barry, Roy Budd, Ron Grainer, Maurice Jarre and Johnny Harris.

He co-wrote two biographies of John Barry in 1998 and 2008, and is currently working on a biography of The John Barry Seven.

He joined the Internet Movie Data-base (www.imdb.com) as a data-manager in 2001 and looked after biographies, composers and the music-department, amongst other tasks.

Geoff retired after nine years loyal service in order to continue writing.

Geoff (owner) and Ruud (webmaster) have been running the John Barry website since June 18, 2001.

 

Photo left to right: webmaster Ruud, Sian Barry Prendergast and Geoff Leonard in London, June 18, 2011.

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Welcome to the newly designed John Barry - The Man With The Midas Touch website.

For the uninitiated, yet curious, John Barry was arguably Britain's best-known composer of film music. He emerged at a time when the score of a movie was seldom recorded for the album market, and when the musical arranger, for all his importance to the end product, was a comparatively anonymous part of the film-making process.

Barry's career spanned the years in which there was an increasing awareness of the importance of these roles. The expansion of the record industry in the 1960s; the growing recognition of the impact of a memorable main theme on box office receipts; a wider acceptance of film music as a serious art form per se, all helped ensure that securing the services of a 'name' composer is now almost as important as hiring the star actors. Musicians from all genres entered the fray, but only the most talented survived.

John Barry not only survived, but prospered spectacularly. The aim of this web-site is a modest one: to help explain the route he took to win the position of preeminence he holds. In doing so, we set out to provide as complete a record of his musical achievements as possible.

It is also an invaluable reference point for any inquisitive musicologist who wishes to sample Barry's prolific output; and finally, it may induce the record industry to continue to re-evaluate what has become an internationally popular back catalogue.

Geoff Leonard (owner) and Ruud (webmaster) have been running the John Barry website since June 18, 2001.

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Geoff (owner) and Ruud (webmaster) have been running the John Barry website since June 18, 2001.

This website is not endorsed by the composer's family.
Use of copyrighted materials and logos are for promotional purposes only.

All files on this website are for personal use only and cannot be bought or sold.

 

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